The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
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